It’s very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYThe whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I’ve done one movie, I’ve done that, move on.
More Keira Knightley Quotes
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I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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In film as a medium, you’re often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it’s usually a very definite point of view.
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Nice is the worst word.
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I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.
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I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
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I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
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In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
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I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
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I don’t quite understand what Tolstoy’s actual personal view of Anna is – whether he likes her or hates her, whether she’s the heroine or the antiheroine.
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Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
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